Blogger / 12 February, 2025 / Nanny Anita

Shaving Foam Heart Printing

It has been years since I have done shaving foam printing.  I think the last one I did with my charges was a Pac-Man one.  As Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, I thought it would be fun to have a go at doing some shaving foam heart printing.  Shaving foam printing is great fun, but it can be extremely messy, just as a warning.

Make sure you follow my Valentines board on Pinterest for more ideas.  Don’t forget to save the pin for later.

To do your own shaving foam heart printing you will need:

• Shaving foam*
• Food colouring
• Card stock
• Ruler/card/spatula
• Scissors
• Tray
• Kebab stick

*If you can, try to go for an unscented one.  It could just be me, but I find the smell of shaving foam quite overpowering.

Spray the shaving foam into block on your tray.  You want to it to be big enough to cover all or at least half of your paper (depending how big your paper is).

Drip food colouring onto the shaving foam, then using a kebab stick/toothpick drag it through the food colouring to create a swirly pattern.

Take your piece of paper, place it on top of the shaving foam and press down firmly.

Peel the paper off.

Next, using a ruler/card/spatula (basically anything that is long and flat), scrape the shaving foam off the paper.  This should leave you with a lovely printing of the pattern on the paper.

Leave it to dry before cutting it out into hearts.  Like the tie-dye hearts, you can use these to make other pictures, decorate walls or windows, or turn into gift tags.

You can reuse the shaving foam multiply times, you may need to add some more food colouring after 2 or 3 goes though.

If you enjoyed making some shaving foam heart prints, be sure to check out my Hama bead heart mobile and my marble hearts.

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